Africa - International Miners Coordination

Reply from MACUA Christopher Rutledge christopher.rutledge@macua.org.za

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Thursday, 30 January 2025 12:19; Hits: 0

Dear Comrade Andreas Tadysiak and the International Miners' Coordination, Revolutionary greetings from MACUA and all the mining-affected communities we represent. We deeply appreciate your solidarity and the continued efforts of the International Miners' Coordination (IMC) in amplifying the plight of miners, their families, and the broader community affected by the horrific events in Stilfontein. Your letter of support, protest action in Berlin, and fundraising initiatives in Germany are a testament to the internationalism and shared struggle of working-class and mining-affected communities globally.

Andreas Tadysiak, the main coordinator of the International Miners' Coordination writes to MACUA (Mining Affected Communities United in Action):

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Monday, 27 January 2025 22:26; Hits: 1

Dear friends of MACUA, miners and their families, It is with great joy that we have learned that the rescue of the miners in Stilfontein has finally been fought for. Congratulations to all who contributed to this. At the same time, we are angry and shocked by the hundreds of uncounted dead and the terrible condition of those rescued. I am Andreas Tadysiak, a former underground coal miner with almost 40 years of professional experience and a trade union member.

Letter of protest to the South African government

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Monday, 27 January 2025 21:31; Hits: 1

Dear Mr President, We miners' wives in the Courage/Germany Women's Association protest in the strongest possible terms that you and your government are deliberately accepting the deaths of the trapped miners of Stilfontein. The starvation of the miners by the police is murder in our eyes.We call on you and your government to do everything in your power to ensure that the trapped miners of Shaft 11 are freed immediately and that help is allowed in without delay.

Solidarity letter to miners of Stilfontain and their families

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Monday, 27 January 2025 20:14; Hits: 0

Dear women, families of the miners of Stilfontein. We were horrified to read that the South African government is deliberately and inhumanely accepting the death of your husbands and sons.We are with you with all our hearts and you have our fullest solidarity. We mourn with you the miners who have already died. For us this is murder and the murderers are the police and the South African government who are keeping your men and sons trapped in the mines without food and water.

South Africa: Marikana's latest statement on the mass murder in Stilfontein

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Tuesday, 21 January 2025 19:22; Hits: 8

We denounce the premeditated mass murder of at least 109 miners by the government of South Africa!

The whole world has watched as half-starved and dead miners have been recovered from the Stilfontein mine near Johannesburg. The South African government, namely President Cyril Ramaphosa, state ministries and the police are responsible for this!

South Africa: This message was sent to us by the board of ‘Marikana’

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Tuesday, 17 December 2024 14:26; Hits: 30

Dear friends, we have just learnt of a crime currently being committed by the South African government against thousands of informal miners. It's hard to believe, so here are a few sources. We will of course also organise solidarity from Marikana. Unfortunately, we hear nothing about protests against the state-organised fascist agitation and violence against the migrants.

Protest declaration has been issued by those responsible for preparing the Africa coordination

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Sunday, 15 December 2024 09:46; Hits: 19

We, the continental coordinator of mineworkers, hereby protest against the inhumane treatment, bordering on criminality, inflicted on immigrants by the South African Government. This is no less than the odious criminal acts against humanity that are taking place in STILFONTEIN, South Africa, and it is serious.

Resolution: To the women miners from the gold mines in Stilfontein/South Africa

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Thursday, 05 December 2024 16:49; Hits: 30

We, the participants of the Duisburg rally on the "Day against Violence against Women", send you our solidarity greetings and our sisterly sympathy. Your men have climbed into the disused gold mines at the risk of their lives. They wanted to save you and your children from hunger and misery by selling the remaining gold deposits.

Protest statement from miners in Morocco to miners in South Africa

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Thursday, 05 December 2024 16:37; Hits: 40

We, at the Syndicat national de l'énergie et des minéraux du Maroc, affiliated to the trade union centre : Democratic Confederation of Labour, have learned with great sadness of the abuses and siege to which the miners of Stilfontein who work in the gold mines in South Africa are exposed while they are on sit-in for the sixth week inside the mine, with the resulting deaths and illnesses,

Protest to the South African government and police regarding the treatment of miners in the mine in Stilfontein

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Sunday, 01 December 2024 10:41; Hits: 32

The preparatory group for the establishment of the European coordination of miners is protesting against the actions of the South African government against the more than 4,000 miners who are underground in the mine at Stilfontein. For about five weeks they have been cut off from supplies to their families. It is inhumane that the South African police have blocked the entrances and that anyone who comes out is immediately arrested on charges of illegal gold mining.

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